The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

(TTIP)

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Introduction

• TTIP is a trade agreement that is currently being negotiated between the United States and the European Union.

• Partnership – designed to reduce barriers to trade between the two.

Timing

• On February 13th 2013 the European Union and United States launched discussion on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment

• 1stround of negotiations (July 2013)

• 2nd round 7-10 October

• 3rd round December

• 4th round (March 2014 )

• 5th round May 2014 talks completed

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United States Trade Representative Ambassador

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TTIP is being hailed as one of the largest trade agreements in history . What kinds of number are we talking about?

• World's largest trade market– 50% of world GDP and 30% of world trade

– €1.8 billion/day and €723 billion/year of goods and services traded

• 15 million transatlantic jobs

• €2,4 trillion of mutual investment stocks

What exactly would TTIP do?

• eliminate all trade tariffs and reduce non-tariff barriers

• Tariffs between the U.S. and EU are already lower than an average of 4 percent

• Non-tariff barriers is a main focus of the negotiations

• Want to expand market access for trade in services

• Industries got benefit from non-tariff barriers to market access.

EU imports from USA(2013) Source:http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/

html/113465.htm

EU exports from USA(2013)

Objectives

The main goal of TTIP isto remove regulatory ‘barriers’:

• labor rights,

• food safety rules,

• the use of toxic chemicals,

• digital privacy laws

• new banking safeguards(to prevent a repeat of 2008 financial crisis)

Significance of TTIP

Market integration, harmonization of standard

• Estimated gains for the EU (€120 billion) and the US (€95 billion),once fully implemented.• EU exports to the US would go up by 28%, (€187 billion worth of exports of EU goods and services). EU imports from the US would increase by €159 billion.• Estimated millions of Euros of savings, hundreds of thousands of jobs created.• Higher national income. • Boost trade by creating increased demand and supply without having to increase public spending or borrowing.

•Decrease value added in production. •More difficult to access to EU-US market with mandatory standards and rules of origin. •Developing-country firms are hurt more by an increase in the stringency of standards and benefit less from economies of scale in integrated markets.

For US and EU

For the rest of

the world

Raise one issue

ISSUE: The U.S. is seen as having stronger rules in financial services, thus there may be more regulation to lose than gain in trade talks, while Europe touts its rules as superior in food safety and other sectors.

Raise one issue

• The EU is putting more pressure on the US to include financial regulation on the talks.

• However, the US does not want to make any concessions. They refuses to reopen, weaken, or undermine implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, which was introduced to tighten bank regulations after the 2008 crisis.

Raise one issue

• The use of growth promoters in food production has been a highly contentious issue between the EU and U.S

• In the U.S, protein and β-agonists are given to animals and some antibiotics put into water and feed to increase growth and feed efficiency.

• In the EU, against the law and against the Code of Ethics for veterinarians, to give animals drugs for non-therapeutic purposes.

References

• http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/member-countries/index_en.htm

• http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ttip/about-ttip/

• http://www.faegrebd.com/20356

• http://www.waronwant.org/campaigns/trade-justice/more/inform/18078-what-is-ttip